Editing Capture the flag (section)

{{short description|Traditional outdoor sport}}
{{other uses}}
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{{Infobox game
| name         = Capture the Flag
| AKA          = CTF
| image        = Boys Playing Capture the Flag (14980437786).jpg
| caption      = An indoor game of capture the flag at the Bellaire Recreation Center's All Sports Camp in [[Bellaire, Texas]] in August 2014
| players      = Large group, more than six players in a team
| playing_time = 10–30 minutes
| skills       = {{Plainlist|
* [[endurance]]
* [[observation]]
* [[strategy]]
* [[speed]]
* [[stealth game|stealth]]
}}
}}
'''Capture the Flag ''' ('''CTF''') is a traditional outdoor [[sport]] where two or more teams each have a [[flag]] (or other markers) and the objective is to capture the other team's flag, located at the team's "base" (or hidden or even buried somewhere in the territory), and bring it safely back to their own base. Enemy players can be "tagged" by players when out of their home territory and, depending on the rules, they may be out of the game, become members of the opposite team, be sent back to their own territory, be frozen in place, or be sent to "jail" until freed by a member of their own team.